[aur-general] Should I bring rpm/dkpg to community

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Neil Darlow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Allan McRae wrote:
>> Well, I seem to have a fairly negative reaction on average so far...
> 
> Perhaps pragmatic would be a better assessment.
> 
>> I just want to point out that if a user wants to install a rpm/deb 
>> package, all the tools are in extra/community already.
> 
> But while they're not in Community, they are labelled Unsupported. I'm 
> just thinking of the potential for breakage that can occur when people 
> start mixing packages from foreign distributions with those of Arch and 
> start complaining when it doesn't work.

Since when do we assume the user is dumb?

> 
> You can always use the "Not Supported" card but if they're in Community 
> then there is the suggestion that these mechanisms are supported.
> 
> Regards,
> Neil Darlow
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